An English woman in New York

Things to ponder : 4 February 2011

Some of my favourite articles on Egypt as the protests have continued and history has continued to unfold. I can remember watching the Berlin Wall being torn down in 1989 and never imagined that I would witness anything like that again in my lifetime :

If the world has a heart, it beats now for Egypt. Not, of course, the Egypt of President Hosni Mubarak—with the rigged elections, the censored press, the axed Internet, the black-clad security police and the tanks and the torture chambers—but the Egypt of the intrepid ordinary citizens who, almost entirely unarmed, with little more than their physical presence in the streets and their prayers, in the name of justice and freedom, are defying this whole apparatus of intimidation and violence.

I could hear piercing shrieks coming from further in the square. Pieces of metal and other debris seemed to be falling from the sky. Something seemed to be exploding, and I guessed it was shells of tear gas—it was a familiar sound.

And two of my favourite photo galleries from Egypt from The Guardian :